(cock crowing) (lion roaring) – Yeah, wheel gloves. – Welcome to Good Mythical More. We’re gonna learn about some stupid fast-food mascots. – But first we’re going to donate $1,000 to Make A Wish for the celebration of their 40th anniversary. In fact today is World Wish Day. (audience clapping) – April 29th. Yeah. – We are really, really big fans of Make A Wish because they grant life-changing wishes to children diagnosed with critical illnesses and we’ve had the privilege of being a part of some of those wishes. It’s one of the highlights of our career. A wish can be something that sparks something in these children. A wish can be that spark that helps these children believe that anything is possible and gives them the strength to fight harder against their illnesses. Please join us in giving on World Wish Day at wish.org/star. That’s what these stars, it’s not that we’re cowboys’ fans… – Yeah. – We’re not. – Look at that, glow-in-the-dark pin. – This is all about Make A Wish right? – Get you one. Okay. I’m gonna read these things that I’ve never read. We’re gonna decide if the mascots that they’re referred to are real or fake. – I like that look. – Fake-nator. Yeah, it was a good look for us. – I mean this is a little strippery’ to wear a bowtie with with no collar but you know I’m not above that. – In the 1990s, Pizza Hut launched a series of commercials dubbed the Pizza Head Show featuring a talking slice of pizza aka Pizza head with a face made out of toppings. Are you sure this isn’t like… – Max Headroom? – Well it seems like something that middle school kids would call someone who is like… – That’s pizza face. – Battling with some pimples, very mean. Pizza head, Pizza head show. I mean it was the 90s… – I feel like… I’ve seen talking pizza before. I don’t believe that it was… I don’t think that making something talk makes you want to eat it. I think your mascots need to be tangential to your food. That’s just my first thought so I’m gonna say fake. – I think it’s real and I think there are multiple and I think when and the pluralist Pizza heads with a Z, Stevie? – [Emily] It is real. – Yes. – Oh, I do remember this. – It’s like a stop-motion thing. – I totally remember this. And I know why they don’t do it anymore. – Yeah… – Now that I see it again… – That is not appetizing. All right Rhett you do the honors… – It’s kind of hard to work with these gloves. Rudy the great root beer in 1974 AMW introduced a brown bear named Rudy as a mascot. He spots a tight-fitting orange turtleneck sweater and orange beret and a nice helping of junk in his trunk. Oh Rudy! – But dunker don’t… – Rudy’s got a booty apparently. – So uh are not, R-U-D-Y are R-double O-T-Y? – R- double O-T-Y. Even had his own LinkedIn profile before being kicked off the site for not being… – A real person. – “Real”. – Rooty… – Hold on. They introduced it in 1974? – Yeah. The same year LinkedIn was invented. – That’s fake. I think there’s time off about those… – [Emily] I think you also said Rudy, the great root beer but it’s bear. – Oh Rudy the great root bear! That’s real. – I know it was a bear, it’s real. – [Emily] It is real. – Yeah. – Yeah. It’s little too uninteresting to be fake. (audience laughing) Boring! – He’s a root bear. He drinks root bee. – In the 70s and 80s, the Burger King had an arch nemesis called the Duke of doubt who resembles the terrifying villain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and doubts everything the Burger King says. – Well this is a horrible idea for a mascot. But that well I’ve already shown that that’s… – Oh Burger King! I just… I, I know I do this laugh. I just, I just disagree with your choice of toppings, I don’t. What is the burger you decide? – Maybe you’re not the king, Mr. Burger King. Like you don’t want that being voiced audibly in your ads. You don’t wannna give your customers the doubts. – The Duke of doubt. – Fake. – Somebody is pulling out a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference to lie to us? I agree. This is fake. – [Emily] Those gloves though… – That’s the only reason to pull out a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference. These days it’s to lie to somebody. – [Emily] It’s real. – Oh gosh! – The Duke of doubt? What? (audience laughing) – Oh my gosh! That’s scary. – I don’t, I don’t know about that Burger King. Maybe McDonald’s is better. Maybe McDonald’s has served more people. In fact, I don’t think that’s a rumor, I think that’s a fact Burger King. – [Emily] Saying that you like, are doing a spot-on impression of what he actually sounds like. – Oh, ooh. – I ‘ll also say that you look so freakish man. – Hey Burger King, let’s bring it back and I’ll say things like, “I’m not sure if these burgers are hormone-free.” (audience laughing) It’s like, what’s the point? What’s the point of this? – I know, it’s like undermining themselves in their own ads? – Olive Garden, Olive Oyl. In 1998 Olive Garden briefly incorporated the voice and likeness of Popeye’s cartoon character, Olive Oyl into an ad campaign referred to as Olive Garden, Olive Oyl. Popeye also made an appearance to promote and listen, salad and breadsticks. – This makes sense. – Somebody thought of this for sure. – But it got shot down in the boardroom, fake. – Yeah. It was an interns idea, fake. – No offense. – [Emily] It’s fake but very well-written. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – In 1991, Dairy Queen… I heard there was a Dairy Queen in Lillington but they didn’t have the right permits to like make burgers… – Burgers. They only had hot dogs that they had in water. – They had to boil their hotdogs and that’s all you could get besides the blizzards of course but… – [Emily] Wait, what? – All true, yes. Would you like us to… – The Dairy Queen in Lillington which shutdown could only boil hotdogs. – Well… – They couldn’t make burgers. – [Emily] But what kind of… What do you mean about the permit? – A burger boiling permit… – They didn’t have a grill. They didn’t have the permitting they needed for a grill so they had hot dogs that were in like the water, like in the food carts in New York. – I only ate there once because if you got to Lillington for a burger, there’s some like really good holes in the walls kind of play like. There was this place… There was a trailer like a single-wide trailer and it was called Birds Drive in. – Oh, Birds Drive in. Oh Birds Drive in was so good. – It’s not their anymore. They sell tacos out of it now. – Yeah. – ‘Cause Miss Bird I think she probably passed away. But what you would do is, you would walk in and you would order or you would call ahead and you would order and you sit in your car and she would look out the window where she was making the burgers and she would know every person who ordered just by looking at him and she’d give a nice wink and a nod and you’d come in and you get your burgers. Best burger I’ve ever had man and nostalgia taste good. So I don’t know if it was really that good. – Followed closely by BJ’s. – We have BJ’s whenever we worked in. We had our basement studio in Lillington, North Carolina. Birds was gone, a long gone by then but we would go to BJ’s and you sit down and you could order… – Street country burger. – Well they would also make… They have plates of food. They’d have like a meat in two, meat in three… – They would have a special. – But it would… Anyway, you’d be rubbing shoulders with the superintendent of public schools and like the mayor… – You never knew who you’d see there. – You know it’s all types of peoples. – Is that the superintendent? – And it was a small place. There were like five tables and you’d sit… – His just like us… – Everybody would talk to everybody at tables. Man I miss that kind of a small-town stuff. – He’s thinking about all the schools at the same time. – Yeah. And we’re sitting over here thinking about making a dumb video. – Yeah, we were. – Yeah. Word got around, it’s like people started looking at us weird once we started getting in a local paper. – They know not boarding that basement over there. (audience laughing) – BJ’s, how that was good. BJ’s is not there anymore. – They moved. They moved to across from the courthouse. – Well they changed hands. – Changed hands but they still called it BJ’s because that’s a good name. – 1991 Dairy Queen incorporated a Disney-esque cartoon cow into their logo with purple eyelids and long eyelashes wearing a tiara. That same year Blue Bell ice cream filed a lawsuit against Dairy Queen claiming their logos were too similar. Dairy Queen removed the cartoon cow as a result. You got some litigation. How do you, how do you combine a pun of litigation and cows? It’s gotta be… – Lactation and litigation. – There it is. – Lactagation. – Yep, there it is. Is this real or fake? – The… – [Emily] Titigation. – Titigation, thank you Emily. (audience laughing) – I mean you don’t call otters, tits. – Otter is a tit, man. – It’s a tits, titagation. – I think… There’s probably been a farmer that has been like, ‘Oh grab, boy grab the tit harder.’ – Yeah, yeah, yeah you’re right. They’ll say tit. – Yeah they will. – Farm talks, what they call that. And also in Vermont, Vermont they say chicken (beep) and it’s not a bad word. My dad told me that one time. He sent me down when I was like 12 and he said, “Son, you know in Vermont (beep) is not a bad word. – Thank God. – I was like, boy I can’t wait to go to Vermont and curse up a storm. Never been to one of the states. Have you been to Vermont? That’s one of the state I haven’t been to. – I have been to that state. – There’s a handful of state I haven’t been to. Vermont is one of those. – I distinctly remember Rhett coming to school the next day and in the lunchroom telling me what he just told you. – I think this is real. – It’s not one of my best memories but I do remember it. – Oh, that’s a real. The Dairy Queen cow and Bluebell. – Yeah, this is real. Too many details. – I filed a lawsuit. – Nobody here works hard enough to make all this up. – Titigation. – [Emily] It’s… – Emily… – [Emily] Fake. – Oh you did it so you could say titigation. – Yeah, that’s some good stuff y’all, titigation. And finally… – All right. I can only tie. These gloves… The original version of Ronald McDonald. Ronald McDonald you know didn’t always look this way. In 1963 McDonald’s initially created a clown mascot with a McDonald’s Cup for a nose. – Oh my gosh. (Rhett whispering) – How you make a cup for a nose? – They rethought the character after the original actor was deemed too fat. – Oh! So it wasn’t about the cup nose? This is weird. – I’m gonna say that this is real. – I just can’t picture a cup for a nose. – It seems too, you know too out there to not be real, cup nose. – Well, let’s see. If I played… I don’t want to tie so I think this is fake. – [Emily] It is… – I want to win. – [Emily] Real. – Well, crap. Now we’ve tied. – Oh my gosh. – That’s the cup nose. I’m glad we have a picture because I, I did not know what a cup nose would do on a man. – Oh that’s what it does right there. – But he’s not overweight I will say that. He’s fat. – Well you know those vertical stripes are slimming. – Oh! – It’s our classiest design yet the GMM Heritage long-sleeve is available now at mythical.com.